“ If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief in all that would not be a leap of faith and it would not a courage… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out lastnight, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time? Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I tried so hard to fight the endless sobbing. I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of s… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I think people have children for all manner of reasons- sometimes out of a pure desire to nurture and witness life, sometimes out of an absence of choice, sometimes in order to hold on to a partner or… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I rail a lot against passion, because I feel like passion can be very exclusionary, and very elitist, and it can leave a lot of people feeling like they don't belong... I'm much more interested in all… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I mean, if you cannot repeat a once-in-a-lifetime miracle—if you can never again reach the top—then why bother creating at all? Well, I can actually speak about this predicament from personal experien… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have nothing against any of these terms. I feel they are all equal because they are all equally adequate and inadequate descriptions of the indescribable. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody. I can make friends with the dead. If there isn… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I have a friend, an aspiring musician, whose sister said to her one day, quite reasonably, What happens if you never get anything out of this? What happens if you pursue your passion forever, but succ… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I had chosen a devotional path and I was being true to it. If someday I got lucky enough to be paid for my work, that would be great, but in the meantime, money could always come from other places. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I don't want to be married anymore. I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me. Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I asked one Sicilian if those buildings were made of cheap concrete and he said, Oh, no -this is very expensive concrete. In each batch, there are a few bodies of people who were killed by the Mafia,… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent pray… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth. Though I… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it? Elizabeth Gilbert
“ He tried to answer the question of why the Italians have produced the greatest artistic, political and scientific minds of the ages, but have still never become a major world power. Why are they the p… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, Liz, you must b… Elizabeth Gilbert
